Vetrimaaran Quotes

I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.

I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.

If I've seen the movie, it means it's an influence on my own filmmaking. Every movie has a reflection in 'Night Watch.'

I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

History is totally unpredictable.

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

History had unexpected duties in store for us.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

… minor incidents—the kind you can never really foresee—combine to lower the general level of performance, so that one always falls short of the intended goal.

Reality in the end proves unmanageable. It breaks in upon man’s conceptions, changes them, and finally destroys them.

Destiny and history are untidy.

If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.

I've been exposed to a ton of 'Magneto' stories over the years, and they all influence me.

You don't always realize the impact you have on people's lives. You just think 'I'm an actor, I don't think I'm doing anything particularly important in life' and then you suddenly realize that actually for a fleeting moment you do make a difference to somebody's life - it has an impact.

My path to motherhood was challenging, to say the least, and I always feel like I'm living a 'Sliding Doors' version of my life.

I feel like I influence more than just rap.

You know if I see a work that really I am very affected by and inspired by then it makes me want to try things with my work that maybe I hadn't considered trying before and I think that is the biggest complement that you can pay somebody.